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September 12, 2014, 11:50 AM

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Nathaniel Popper / New York Times:

Apple Pay charged a lower transaction rate by banks than typical for credit card transactions, won't be accepted by Walmart and Best Buy — Banks Did It Apple's Way in Payments by Mobile — JPMorgan Chase's chief financial officer, Marianne Lake, took the stage at a financial conference …

More: Business Insider, TUAW, AppleInsider, PYMNTS.com and DisplayBlog

Tweets: @mikeisaac, @micksussman, @nytimesbusiness, @counternotions and @tek_fin

Michael Carney / PandoDaily:

Merchants equipped for Apple Pay likely to surge in US as Oct 2015 deadline for EMV support spurs point of sale system upgrades — The hidden brilliance behind the timing of Apple's adoption of NFC — There's a brilliance to the timing of Apple's adoption of near field communication (NFC) technology.

More: MacRumors, 9to5Mac and The Boston Globe

Tweets: @adamnash and @stevesi

Ina Fried / Re/code:

iPhone 6 Plus sells out within hours, AT&T says demand for new iPhones is higher than past two years — Larger iPhone 6 Plus Sells Out Amid Strong Demand for Apple's Latest Crop — Yep, lots of people tried to order new iPhones as pre-sales began just after midnight on Friday.

More: MacRumors, Bloomberg, BGR, FierceWireless, The Verge, 9to5Mac and MacDailyNews. Tweets: @ryan_knutson

Juli Clover / MacRumors:

New iPhones now available for pre-order hours after Apple's online store had major problems coping with demand — iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus Now Available for Pre-Order — Apple has begun accepting online pre-orders for the iPhone 6 and the iPhone 6 Plus in several different countries around the world …

More: The Verge, TechCrunch, CNET, Geeky Gadgets, WebProNews, Softpedia News, Pocketnow, The Mac Observer, Mobile Magazine, iPhone Hacks, Gizmodo, The Verge, BGR, The Next Web and Gotta Be Mobile

Tweets: @jeffrey903, @gruber, @marcoarment, @ejacqui, @reneritchie, @zamn, @markgurman, @parislemon, @monkbent and @llsethj

Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac:

Apple's second wave of iPhone 6 sales starts Sept. 26 for long list of countries

More: TechCrunch, BGR, Touch Arcade, ZDNet, AppleInsider, The Techolic and iPhone in Canada Blog

Johana Bhuiyan / BuzzFeed:

About 1000 New York Uber drivers plan to strike on Monday over fares and working conditions — Uber Drivers “Strike” — And Switch To Lyft — Over Fares And Conditions — Testing the labor market. “Uber is not doing anything — it's only an application on our phones.” — Facebook: uberdriversnetwork

More: TechnoBuffalo. Tweets: @dhh and @laurahazardowen

Craig Timberg / Washington Post:

Court documents show US threatened Yahoo with $250K/day fine in 2008 if it refused to participate in NSA's PRISM program — U.S. threatened massive fine to force Yahoo to release data — The U.S. government threatened to fine Yahoo $250,000 a day in 2008 if it failed to comply …

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Windows 9's new Start menu demonstrated on video — Microsoft may have demonstrated its new Start menu earlier this year, but thanks to a recent “Windows 9” leak we're now seeing every single part of the company's plans for bringing back this popular feature.

More: BGR, PC World, CNET, SuperSite for Windows, SlashGear, Tim Anderson's ITWriting, Softpedia News, WinBeta and Gizmodo

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Leaked Windows 9 screens reveal virtual desktops, windowed “modern” apps, search button on taskbar, and more

More: SuperSite for Windows, Softpedia News, Yahoo Tech, PC World, Engadget, Fone Arena, eWeek, ZDNet, Neowin, TechSpot, InfoWorld, bit-tech.net, Neowin, ExtremeTech, Ubergizmo, Digital Trends, GSMArena Blog and Ars Technica

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:

Google changes stance, now says net neutrality rules should apply to cellular networks — Google changes stance on net neutrality four years after Verizon deal — Four years ago, Google teamed up with Verizon to argue that most network neutrality rules should not apply to cellular networks.

More: DSLreports, Softpedia News, Washington Post, SiliconBeat, Guardian and The Hill

Associated Press:

HP fined $59M for bribing Russian officials as part of $108M plea deal for bribes in Mexico, Poland, and Russia — HP FINED $58.7M FOR BRIBERY OF RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT — SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Hewlett-Packard Co. pleaded guilty Thursday to felony charges that former employees bribed Russian …

More: USA Today, NDTV Gadgets, Tech Times and Business Insider. Tweets: @bschmeitzner

Liz Gannes / Re/code:

California Regulator Says Commercial Carpooling — Like What Uber and Lyft Are Doing — Isn't Legal — The California Public Utilities Commission is apparently not a fan of the new trend in mobile-enabled ride-sharing: helping two or more people with similar origins and destinations share a car across town.

More: PandoDaily and CNET. Tweets: @kostasrossoglou

New York Times:

Alibaba to Close Order Books Early and May Lift Price of I.P.O. — Demand for shares in the Alibaba Group, the Chinese e-commerce giant, was long expected to be strong. But the orders have come in so quickly that the company's banks expect to close their order books early.

More: Bloomberg, Reuters and Wall Street Journal

Meg P. Bernhard / Harvard News:

Harvard's Introduction to Computer Science course attracts 818 students, up from 700 last year, the most in 30 years — CS50 Logs Record-Breaking Enrollment Numbers — Nearly 12 percent of Harvard College is enrolled in a single course, according to data released by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Registrar's Office on Wednesday.

More: VentureBeat and Quartz. Tweets: @smwat, @emilybell and @dabeard

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Kevin Rose's New App Tiiny Lets You Share Little Photos That Disappear In 24 Hours — Digg, Milk, and Revision3 founder Kevin Rose recently left Google Ventures to start a new mobile development house called North, and now we have some details on the firm's first app, Tiiny, which will launch soon.

Tweets: @samfbiddle and @soffes

Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica:

Review: In its second generation, the Moto X becomes a true flagship — The new Moto X is a worthy successor to the original. — At the end of last year's Moto X review, we concluded that it wasn't a perfect phone. Still, we wanted to see where Motorola would be in a year, and …

More: ZDNet, DisplayBlog, Engadget, The Verge and Know Your Mobile

Joseph Ax / Reuters:

Mexican companies sue Yahoo, law firm, allege conspiracy to avoid $2.7 billion judgment — (Reuters) - Two Mexican companies have sued Yahoo Inc (YHOO.O) and law firm Baker & McKenzie in New York federal court, accusing them of engineering a conspiracy to avoid a $2.7 billion judgment issued by a Mexican court in 2012.

More: Bloomberg and The Next Web

Federico Viticci / MacStories:

Preview: Transmit Coming to iOS 8 with Share Extension, Touch ID, Document Provider, and More — Panic's popular file management app for OS X, Transmit, is coming to iOS 8 as a full-featured adaptation for the iPhone and iPad. Built for iOS 8, Transmit will take advantage of new technologies …

More: MacRumors

Kyle Russell / TechCrunch:

Code.org Launches Code Studio, A Toolset And Curriculum For Teaching Kids Programming — Since its creation, Code.org's mission has been to get coding into curriculums for students as schools nationwide. Today, the nonprofit group is launching Code Studio, a combined set of tools and curriculum …

More: VentureBeat, GeekWire and ANYBODY CAN LEARN. Tweets: @apartovi

Clayton Jones / Official Google for Work Blog:

Google announces iOS Sync for Google Apps users for increased security on iPhones and iPads — Increasing security and productivity for iOS devices — Marvel and DC Comics, Star Wars and Star Trek, Emacs and VI—we all have our favorites. And then there's iOS and Android, each with dedicated fans.

More: ZDNet

Joshua Ho / AnandTech:

Hands On with USB Type C: Reversible USB Connectors — Today, the USB-IF brought me in to see the long-awaited USB Type C cables. We've written about this before, but for those that aren't familiar with this new USB spec, the USB Type C cable and USB 3.1 spec are designed with the future in mind.

Tweets: @fmanjoo and @hdmoore

Max Eulenstein / Facebook:

Facebook will now show better News Feed ads using data users report on why they hid ads — News Feed FYI: Listening to People's Feedback to Show Better Ads — Every day, there are millions of ads that are eligible to be shown in News Feed from more than 1.5 million active advertisers on Facebook …

More: Softpedia News, Ubergizmo, Tech Times, Shiny Shiny, SocialTimes, Business Insider, Engadget, ZDNet, Marketing Pilgrim, Wall Street Journal, The Verge, Inside Facebook and The Next Web

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